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Going Up: Keen Featured in Inc. Magazine’s Elevator Pitch Column

This week, we are proud to have been featured in Inc. Magazine’s Elevator Pitch column! Check out the column, and see if you agree with the investors weighing in. Whatever your opinion, we think you’ll agree: it’s exciting to see a top business magazine looking at social entrepreneurs and how they’ll carefully balance their missions with their business models to successfully accomplish both.

Not on the Bandwagon? Don’t worry.

submitted by Catharine

At Keen, we talk a lot about our distribution channel being on the iPhone, but it’s only our first test application. We are quickly moving towards getting as many people as possible onto our mobile distribution platform. The Google Android Operating System is gaining a lot of traction, and starting to offer significant competition to the iPhone. Below is an excerpt from an article in VentureBeat:

“Looking forward, it’s a safe bet that December’s Android share will be well over 30%, helped by the introduction of Verizon’s Droid and Google’s Nexus One. But wait for it — the report to watch for will More >

Two Thumbs up for Google.

submitted by Catharine

Google has yet again, impressed us with their developments. You guys rock, really. I love your mission: “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” It’s so simple yet it packs a lot. It gave me great joy to sit among representatives from national Deaf and Hard of Hearing organizations at Google’s announcement of machine-generated captions from the Washington, D.C. office. Ever since I received the invitation by e-mail a week prior to the event, with the subject line: “Google Announcement: Auto-generated captions in YouTube” I kept wondering what it could possibly mean. This is a More >